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[flareonfloof]

it's so hard to be socially conscious and also maintain a friendly relationship with people i work with

[flareonfloof]

like there's only so many times you can say "hey don't say that, that's rude/bigoted/a dogwhistle" before everyone just stops talking to you. nothing changes except you're alone now. ask how i know.

[flareonfloof]

it's easier to ignore the slightly offputting tranny than to actually change how you act dontchaknow

[flareonfloof]

right, I'm not supposed to blog about anything serious or I'll get censored or deleted or whatever. how about that world cup, huh

[ainecdote-remade-deactivated202]

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[sloppity-bilepiper]

1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[pencildragons]

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

[pencildragons]

I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT

some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:

Inuit artists:

the jerry cans (esp their album Inuusiq)

beatrice deer

twin flames

Māori artists:

jordyn with a why

Indigenous australian artists:

tilly tjala thomas (i particularly love ngai yurlku nhiina)

kardajala kirridarra (srlsly check out ngajabu (Grandmother's Song))

i've also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven't checked out his stuff yet

[columbidaae]

Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually

(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,

[aconissa]

For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!

[alqemizzy]

i'll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.

[emeraldraccoon478]

I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that

[morathicain]

Haven't seen Belle Sisoski here yet so here we go: she's the current Artist of Year for BURO impact Awards. She's from Malaysia and knows how to play an insane amount of ethnic instruments and mixes them with her own voice. She does covers and her own songs, mixes ethnic instruments with Techno and shows the process. And she's also a live DJ at 19!

And one of her own:

Oh and of course there's also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:

[upthewitchypunx]

1876 is a Pow Wow punk rock band from Portland, Oregon

1876

[tieflingkisser]

Alien Weaponry is an awesome Māori metal band

Darkaside is a Papuan metal band

Shepherds Reign is a Samoan metal band

[vonclosen]

Ts'msyen (pacific northwest coast) black metal

[oyasumiwa]

[dragonie]

I also want to recommend King Stingray here! They describe their work as Yolŋu surf rock

[secretsfromwholecloth]

Lenin Tamayo, Quechua pop singer.

And of course I can't not add Mari Boine (Sámi) to a post like this:

And Arvvas, who I think have moved on to other things but did mashups of Sámi traditional singing and jazz:

[morbid-arachnid]

oooo you want to listen to Cemican....you want Maya and Metal fusion music so bad....

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[dancinbutterfly]

Progress.

Onwards!

[onthedriftinthetardis]

I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:

While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy

[doomsayersrequiem]

PLEASE HELP A TRANS WOMAN NOT BE FORCIBLY DETRANSITIONED

Hi, my name is Ashley

I am a 19-year-old trans woman. I have started HRT recently, however I am now unable to continue transitioning due to outside forces relating to my family.

Please help me continue with my transition by purchasing needles and syringes.

0/$45

My c*sh*app is doomsayersrequiem

[neonshroudedgraves]

Discord planned to introduce age verification worldwide – and it's about to go live. | Tuta

Popular chat platform Discord plans to roll out age checks globally starting in or after June 2026, opting people into teens settings by def

[dragonmarquise]

Discord is supposedly saying this is going to affect "only 10% of users", but I really don't believe them at all. It's always going to be way worse and affect more people than what they claim.

So in case anyone needs it:

This browser-based tool can fool facial age checks using 3D avatars

After Discord announced plans to require age verification for all users, a free, HTML-based tool emerged that aims to bypass facial scans on

[girlnephew]

[storyweavingspider]

High Fantasy world with no whites present send post

[storyweavingspider]

In an ideal world there is no such uniting concept as “whiteness” because whiteness was, as a concept, conceived solely to oppress the racialized via white supremacy.

In an ideal world has no whites because white supremacy no longer destroys civilizations and collapses entire nations of people into a singularity of whiteness to determine who gets to be “the good ones”.

In an ideal world the racialized do not have to fear for their lives and constantly play at being “acceptable” to whiteness in order to survive working, playing, socializing, LIVING. They don’t fear that they’ll be killed in the street for the crime of not being white. They don’t fear wearing the wrong clothes in the wrong place will end in a jail sentence.

In an ideal REAL world, whiteness has been abolished. In an ideal REAL world, there are no longer “white” people. In an ideal REAL world, white supremacy has been destroyed.

[i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated]

okay i actually 100% agree on this op, honestly i was really just thinking on a more simplistic level of “i think this person is being racist towards white people -> never mind i misread the post” but yeah. ideally thered be no concept at all of people being white or black or brown or anything. theyre just people bro

[storyweavingspider]

-“You can be racist towards white people”

-calling a trans woman bro

Thanks to your input on this thread I have decided to create a bomb that kills all whites and men immediately. Thank you for your time, effort, and significant contribution to this endeavor, I’ll ensure your name is engraved into it.

[tanukutie]

I don't think the person responding above was actually calling you (storyweavingspider), "bro"

I think he (i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated) was talking to an imaginary 3rd party as a rhetorical device

(why am I butting into this? I don't like seeing people argue for reasons that could be avoided. mostly though I'm hoping that if i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated truly didn't misgender or mean to misgender storyweavingspider, that there'll be less hurt feelings between the two of you)

[storyweavingspider]

Ah yes, because I’m definitely going to hate the fact that he believes in reverse racism less if he wasn’t actually misgendering me.

I know that tumblr users love to excuse the racism because it’s not real or important to them, but whitesplaining a misgendering to me, a Black trans woman, when the bigger issue was the fucking “ummmm I think this Black person is being racist to whites actually-“ is so fucking goofy.

I’m strapping *you* specifically to the bomb that kills all whites and men now. Congratulations, I’m sure this will be a positively explosive experience for you.

[honesttrancevermin]

Okay, Latina here. If I may, I agree with everything OP said except the violence. Let’s do this MLK style, agreed?

[storyweavingspider]

I’m starting to think y’all just have a kink for getting strapped to the bomb that kills all men and whites

[chingaderita]

Mexican here.

I swear she does not speak for all of us.

[kayla-denker]

The issue of trans women being sent to men's prisons isn't brought up as being a monstrous thing because of the misgendering, it's monstrous because we're sent there to be legally sex trafficked.

That's what V-coding is. That is why they are so adamant about sending trans women to men's prisons, because sex trafficking trans women within the men's prison system is an essential part of that system. Being misgendered by this isn't even an issue that's on our radar!

[laceyembrace]

holy shit, to say it "keeps the violence rate down", when these women are being violently raped. aka they dont count it because they dont care when it happens to trans women.

[compassionlotion]

Help this doll👸🏾

Hi y’all❤️ Made another post & it got no traction so i’m making another one. I’m brie, i’m a black trans woman who is currently between jobs, I’m asking for assistance so I can get groceries & refill my metrocard because I have a bunch of fucking interviews this week. Just asking you see this please boost this. Literally anything helps.

Paypal

Cashapp

Venmo: @miss-brie-nicole

[compassionlotion]

Could someone pls send me $10 so I could get food?❤️

[storyweavingspider]

Ay if you Black and make art/music/write/whatever, reblog this post showing it and link your shop/sites/paylinks/etc. so people can buy your stuff or send you money.

If you non-black, reblog this when you see it and if you only see one or two additions on the stack, check comments to see if you can reblog a longer version. Pretty much all my shit is free to read/listen to, so send your money to other Black folks in the reblogs instead and help boost their art.

Writing:

Weaving the Stories, poetry compilation

Chasing Uncertainty, poetry compilation/Transfeminist Womanism theory

General longer-form theory can be found at my site, anons.ee

Audio:

A recorded version of Weaving the Stories can be found on Bandcamp, YouTube, and streaming platforms.

[sins-of-sodom]

i dont have a paylink site but id just appreciate traction! follow me <3 commission me actually!!!! im gonna link a bluesky account in the near future, stay tuned for that ~

(some of these are unfinished)

[tgirl-gaming-thoughts]

DIYHRT.market is back as valerie.vg

[charl0ttan]

[allegedly-human]

nonsense words such as "blorbo" and "skibidi" are outliers and a minuscule minority and thus do not invalidate that statement

[minihood31770]

Skibidi coming from scat, an art form pioneered by black people, is actually AAVE, and not an outlier.

[cungadero]

the shame of making a connection irl and them being like omg can i have your insta??? snapchat????? and having to be like sorry i live in a gap between two tree roots youre just going to have to normal text me like some kind of animal

[gnarlyghost]

Loop for animation festival

Track by fuzzyloops on instagram